Bacon & Eggs, Tomato & Eggs: Can They Share the Same Table?
In 1985, an agricultural delegation from Hebei Province in northern China visited Muscatine, Iowa. Its leader, Xi Jinping—now China’s president—stayed with a local family. One of his memories from that trip was a simple breakfast of bacon and eggs. “You were the first group of Americans I came into contact with,” Xi later told his…